LG: To differentiate between the idealistic and materialistic version of the American Dream.

AGENDA:1. Do Now/Share Out2. Review Castro Speech3. Materialistic American Dream4. Discussion

HOMEWORK:None

DO NOW:1. Take out your HW from last night 2. “Turn and Talk”

- Define the materialistic American Dream and the idealistic American Dream?- How might a person who believes in the materialistic American Dream be different from someone who believes in the

idealistic American Dream?

Julian Castro• Idealistic American Dream• Believes America provides

opportunity for all• His family came from

nothing• Became Mayor of San

Antonio, TX• Became Secretary of

Housing and Urban Development

Task: Find textual evidence to support that Castro believes in the idealistic American Dream. Underline the text and indicate with “IAD” (Idealistic American Dream).

Kim & Kanye

• Materialistic American Dream

• Always want more things

• Obsessed with fame, money, and status

• Greedy

Materialistic American Dream

“Some may say you're headedDown a crooked trailBut if you sell your soul,At least you've made a saleYou could end world hungerOr create a vaccineBut if you wanna be somebodyIt's all about the green.”

--“All About the Green”

The Wedding Singer: The Musical

• Based on these lyrics, how is success defined by someone who believes in the materialistic American Dream?

James Edition: The World’s Luxury Marketplace

• 2004 Ferrari 360 Spider F1

• $119,900• Mallorca Gold: Brand

New Waterfront Villa in Puerto Andratx

• $10,344,800

www.jamesedition.com

• Focuses on the growing “wealth gap” in America, as seen through the eyes of Jamie Johnson, a 27-year-old heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune.

• Johnson explores the political, moral, and emotional rationale that enables a tiny percentage of Americans—the 1%--to control nearly half the wealth of the entire U.S.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmlX3fLQrEc5:25-13:18, 23:39-25:28, 49:47-54:50

As you watch, record facts/statements that shock/surprise you. We will discuss them after the movie.

Documentary: The One Percent

Documentary: The One Percent

• Reactions?• How would the 1% respond to those (like

Castro) who believe in the IDEALISTIC American Dream?

Idealistic Version vs. Materialistic Version

Idealistic Version• Each person has the right

to:– Pursue happiness – You can make your lifefor a

better life through hard work– There is opportunity available

for everyone in America

Materialistic Version• Success is:

– Owning expensive things (a house, a car, technology, etc.)

– Having a “good job” with a high salary

The American Dream

• The “American Dream” has powered the hopes and aspirations of Americans for generations. It began as a plain but revolutionary notion: each person has the right to pursue happiness, and the freedom to strive for a better life through hard work and fair ambition. But over time, this dream has come to represent a set of expectations about owning things and making money. So what exactly is the American Dream? How did we come to define it? And is it changing?

-- “A Better Life: Creating the American Dream”By Kate Ellis and Ellen Guettler

American Radio Works

The American Dream

• The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.

--James Truslow Adams, The Epic of America